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Standardization of shotgun metagenomics parameters for pks-positive enterobacteria detection in human fecal samples: Receiver operating characteristic analysis using polymerase chain reaction as reference standard

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Published Online: 2026-08-01

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Authors

Tataka, Yusei

Kawashima, Hitoshi

Nanri, Hinako

Watanabe, Daiki

Watanabe, Kenji

Yamaguchi, Masaya

Kunisawa, Jun

Miyachi, Motohiko https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1146-0905
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Development of Innovative Research on Cancer Therapeutics from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (JP16ck0106243h0001)

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (JP16K00944)

Health and Labor Sciences Research Grant (201709002 B)
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Article History

Received: 24 October 2025

Accepted: 23 July 2026

First Online: 1 August 2026

Declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the NIBN (approval no. KENEI3-12) and was registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR, registration no. UMIN000023270). All participants provided written informed consent after receiving a thorough explanation of the study procedures and potential risks prior to the commencement of data collection.

Consent for publication: Not applicable.

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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